Education Data Analytics Specialist

State-of-Missour; Jefferson City (MO); On-site; USD 55,000 - 67,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Defined pension plan

Health insurance

Generous leave and holidays

Job summary

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education seeks a Research Analyst for the Office of Childhood in Jefferson City. You will analyze data supporting Child Care Compliance, Subsidy, Early Intervention, Home Visiting, and Quality Programs.

You will develop procedures for researching and reporting data, create SQL queries, and provide guidance on analytics processes while protecting sensitive information in accordance with state laws.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in education technology, mathematics, statistics, economics, computer science, data science, or information technology or closely related field.
• Four years progressive experience working with large data sets, including data quality, data planning, and documentation. Experience must include work with using data for research, business intelligence, public reporting or closely related tasks. Experience must include two years’ work with statistical software and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Conducts data that support the strategic planning and accountability for Child Care Compliance, Child Care Subsidy, Early Intervention, Home Visiting, Quality Programs, and Outreach.
• Develop procedures and methodology to be used in researching, analyzing, evaluating, and reporting data; determines sources for obtaining data and corrects, adjusts, and interprets data.
• Creates advanced queries using Microsoft SQL or similar tools to process data requests from Office of Childhood staff and other entities such as local education agencies (LEAs), state agencies, and the public.
• Monitors, supports, and enhances the Office of Childhood analytic processes while providing technical guidance.
• Protects sensitive data by understanding state and federal laws pertaining to education data.
• Provides technical guidance for the sharing of Office of Childhood data through web-based reporting, business intelligence, and ad-hoc data requests.
• Consults with program staff and various levels of administration in planning and implementing data reporting projects.
• Demonstrate regular, reliable, and engaged attendance.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in education technology, mathematics, statistics, economics, computer science, data science, or information technology or closely related field

Four years progressive data experience with large data sets; data quality, data planning, and documentation; two years’ work with statistical software

Tools

Microsoft SQL

Business Intelligence

Job description

The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education seeks a Research Analyst for the Office of Childhood in Jefferson City. You will analyze data supporting Child Care Compliance, Subsidy, Early Intervention, Home Visiting, and Quality Programs.

You will develop procedures for researching and reporting data, create SQL queries, and provide guidance on analytics processes while protecting sensitive information in accordance with state laws.